Nintendo Switch console plays games home and away

Nintendo has revealed that its next games machine will be a handheld, portable device that doubles up as a home console.Previously code-named NX, now named the Nintendo Switch, the device looks like a tablet computer with controllers that attach to its sides.The device was revealed in ...

....”. Martin Beck at consultancy Oxford Economics said there was a lack of drivers to push up house price growth but equally an absence of the kind of forces which have typically caused prices to fall. ...

....Sainsbury’s is cutting more than 1,000 jobs at its head office as part of an efficiency drive designed to save £500m. The UK’s second-largest supermarket chain has drafted in McKinsey, the management consultancy, to draw up a headcount reduction plan. ...

....Sainsbury’s is to cut more than 1,000 jobs at head office as part of a fresh efficiency drive designed to save £500m. The UK’s second-largest supermarket chain has drafted in McKinsey, the management consultancy, to draw up a headcount reduction plan. ...

....”. Shapiro, who runs his own economic consultancy, Sonecon, in Washington, believes few people will permit Trump to take credit for the current benign economic situation – but will hold him responsible should it deteriorate by the midterm elections in November 2018. ...

....Carney is likely to highlight how wages have failed to keep pace with rising prices, hitting real incomes and consumer spending. As one economic consultancy said this week: “The criteria set out by the governor to justify a hike look a long way from being met. ...

....The newly elected chair of the Treasury select committee also called on the Bank to provide its views on what a Brexit transition deal should look like to minimise damage to the City. An analysis by the consultancy firm Oliver Wyman calculated that up to 40,000 jobs in the wholesale banking sector – which provides services to companies – could be at risk. ...

....Lenders have now been ordered to boost their cash reserves and policymakers are now stress testing balance sheets to see if banks could cope if people started to default on repayments. Separate research from consultancy Retail Economics today showed more than one in ten consumers are only just about managing to make minimum credit card repayments. ...

....Despite talk of no deal, many Brexit observers believe there has been a softening of the government’s stance since the general election, with increasing talk of the UK negotiating a transitional agreement. In research published on Sunday, the political consultancy Eurasia Group said: “To clear the air and offer more certainty to business than the government’s current nods and winks, ministers believe that May will make a major speech on Europe in September. ...

....Britain will be hit by huge border delays, require vast lorry parks in the south-east, and suffer more than £1bn a year in economic damage, according to a stark economic analysis of the likely impact of customs checks after Brexit. Additional costs associated with potential motorway queues, extra customs staff and jobs lost as a result of companies relocating mean even that assessment is “extremely conservative”, a study by a leading economic consultancy warns. ...

.... Something that’s designed in an obfuscated way, that only the very wealthy can access, which isn’t commonly used – that’s not on in my book. Management consultancy partner, earning £500,000-£700,000 per year:. ...

.... I thought the shoe business, made-to-measure shoes, was going to be fantastic, but it was an absolute disaster – they didn’t fit. When I left university I went to work for Bain and Company, an American consultancy. ...

.... The figures will be in the public domain on an official website, hence the worry that upsets and rows at the BBC will be repeated among millions of workers, albeit with less publicity. Wariness – and outright scepticism – about the government’s initiative could be seen in a survey of employers published by consultancy Mercer. ...

....Even before Channel 4 bought the format, sales of baking ingredients had begun to fall back from a peak in 2014, according to IRI. Maureen Hinton, group research director at retail consultancy GlobalData, said that the trend was likely to continue unless Channel 4 was able to come up with “something very different that inspires people’s interest”. ...

.... In the first quarter of 2017 the UK economy was the slowest growing economy in the G8 and the EU28. Business confidence has fallen and is now at its lowest point for almost six years, the economic consultancy IHS Markit reports. ...

....Jon Kempster has been brought in as chief financial officer. The former finance director of energy consultancy Utilitywise, logistics group Wincanton and industrial firm Delta will join on 11 September. ...

. Record levels of employment will fail to prevent the economy’s growth rate slowing this year and next during a period when consumer spending will be squeezed by rising inflation and falling living standards, the consultancy firm PwC has predicted. ...

....The UK needs to prepare itself for weaker economic performance, two major forecasting groups have said, in the latest studies predicting the downsides of the Brexit vote. Fragile business sentiment linked to Brexit-related anxiety, domestic political uncertainty and squeezed consumer budgets have caused UK business confidence to drop to its lowest point for almost six years, the economic consultancy IHS Markit reports. ...

....”. Phil Westcott, managing director of an AI consultancy firm, Filament, who advises companies on how to handle emerging technology, said that what was most alarming was that a single company would own not just this “incredibly rich dataset” but also “all the main information channels into people’s lives”. ...

....Drivers also stand to benefit as they would be compensated in some form – such as via payments or free parking – for allowing their batteries to help power grid managers. StrategicFit, an energy consultancy, thinks a single electric car could earn its owner £1,000-£2,000 a year for helping the grid, depending on where it were located and how often it were plugged in. ...

.... Business surveys since then have suggested that activity continues to rise but at a more muted pace as companies grapple with higher costs, weaker consumer spending and skills shortages. Friday’s figures painted “a rather bleak picture for the UK economy and underline the challenges lying ahead,” said Kay Daniel Neufeld, senior economist at the Centre for Economics and Business Research consultancy. ...